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The amount of remote sensed imagery that has become available by far surpasses the possibility of manual analysis. One of the most important tasks in the analysis of remote sensed images is land use classification. This task can be recast as semantic classification of remote sensed images. In this paper we evaluate classifiers for semantic classification of aerial images. The evaluated classifiers are based on Gabor and Gist descriptors which have been long established in image classification tasks. We use support vector machines and propose a kernel well suited for using with Gabor descriptors. These simple classifiers achieve correct classification rate of about 90% on two datasets. From these results follows that, in aerial image classification, simple classifiers give results comparable to more complex approaches, and the pursuit for more advanced solutions should continue having this in mind.
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Risojević, V., Momić, S., Babić, Z. (2011). Gabor Descriptors for Aerial Image Classification. In: Dobnikar, A., Lotrič, U., Šter, B. (eds) Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms. ICANNGA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20267-4_6
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